The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Buford is commemorated with numerous others on large bronze plaque in the cemetery
Findagrave memorial has numerous picture of plaques with Bufords name
Also family information as well as a narrative that states his first name is John, but he chose to go by Thomas in his adult life
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Author: James Edward Mitchell
John Thomas Buford (aka Thomas) was born in the Virginia Colony during 1736 at his parents’ Aug 1735 land patent at Orange County (Co.) Virginia. Orange Co., formed 1734 from Spotsylvania (Spots); Culpeper formed 1749 from Orange; and, Madison formed 1792 from Culpeper. Between 1607 and 1750 the Chesapeake Bay mapped the eastern edge of the British colony. The western edge was mapped for Britain’s American colony that claimed lands to the Mississippi River. The modern city of Chicago was included in the Orange County, Virginia’s formation (1734) territorial claim.
His father, John Buford (1707-1787) married 1735 in Lancaster County, Virginia (VA) to Judith Early (1711-1787), a daughter of Thomas Early born ca 1718, prior to the formation of Spots., from Essex, King and Queen, and King William.
Kindly, know that these allied, Piedmont region of Virginia frontier settlers were cut from hardy stock! Fewer than a hundred families sharing First Patents of Land in Madison County mapped between the Robinson River and Rapidan were recorded during the mid-1740s. Wolftown celebrated the Rapid Ann Protestant Meetinghouse and a school. Buford family neighbors were surnamed: Bledsoe, Kirtley, Lewis, Wilhoit, Gaar, Bohannon, Rucker, Booton, Weaver, Aylor, Ward, Zachary, Blankenbaker and Rouze; many whom emigrated west to Kentucky Territory and, south to re-settle at the Broad River Colony in the area near Ruckersville and Washington-Wilkes, Georgia, after the Treaty of Paris, 1783.
John Thomas Buford’s father’s land patent was recorded mapped in Brumfield Parish, southwest of Gaar Mountain and White Oak (Island) Run as Kirtley Road, Wolftown now, Madison, VA; source, map of ‘Madison County Commonwealth of Virginia’ surveyed and drawn by Eugene M. Scheel 2nd Printing Commissioned [(1992) available for sale] by the Madison Co., Library, 402 N Main St, Madison, VA. This Kirtley Road, tract appeared mapped (1783) as Virginia by Abel Buell entitled: New and Correct Map of the United States of North America…, Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut, published at New Haven according to Act of Assembly.
John Thomas Buford, age 38 was appointed a VA militia captain in early 1774, for a company raised at Bedford Co., formed 1753 from Albemarle and Lunenburg. He was wounded on 10 Oct 1774 and died following the battle fought at Point Pleasant, part of Dunmore’s War, mapped now at West Virginia. He was designated, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)_ Patriot #: P-124437.
John (aka Thomas) Buford’s male siblings, Abraham, James, (John, also) Simeon, and William are recorded within the index of Dorothy Ford Wulfeck’s published 1965 manuscript entitled, Culpeper County, Virginia: Will Books B (1770-83) and C (1783-91) with Court Suits, and the Will of John Buford dated 13 Sep 1785 at Culpeper Courthouse, proven on 17 Sep 1787, etc., pgs 10, 67 and 161.
Anne (1738-90); Elizabeth (1742-94); Eleanor (1745-1830); Mary (1753-1818); Frances (17541820); James (1740-98); William Early Buford (1745-1825); (Col.) Abraham Buford (1749-1833); Henry (1751-1814); and, (Capt.) Simeon Buford (1756-1840). Revolutionary War soldiers, Abraham Buford age 26 enlisted initially, in the Jun 1775 formation of the Culpeper Minute-men Bttn., raised for Culpeper Co., VA militia. His younger brother, Simeon Buford, age 19 volunteered as a militia man in his brother Abraham’s minute-men company raised at the Culpeper Courthouse. [James Buford was designated, (SAR)_Patriot #: P-124432; William Early Buford, (SAR)_Patriot #: P-124445; Abraham Buford, (SAR)_Patriot #: P-124428; and, Simeon Buford, (SAR)_Patriot #: P-124439.] Simeon Buford’s Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statement (S.1180) was recorded online; see http://revwarapps.org/s1180.pdf
John Thomas Buford married Anna Watts in Virginia during 1756, and their marriage produced children: John Buford (1757-?); William Buford (1768-1842) and Nancy Buford Wale (1771-1852; see, his burial site photographs taken at Pioneer Cemetery, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia at Latitude: 38.84780, Longitude: -82.13610 –Find A Grave Memorial# 80076139.
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